Nux Vomica - Choked At The Roots lyrics

Seeds were planted long ago - mistrust Our natural instincts choked at the roots Love, sharing, compa**ion - we lost Overgrown by fear, greed and envy So while we learned to cultivate and sow We also learned to fight and k** And the blood began to flow Unchecked desires for power and control Became the dominant forces in our world We know what's right or wrong Without having to stop and think And we know when we've done wrong If we listen to our instincts Yet we tear apart what's good And dissect with prejudice So many positive things Distracted by the noise, we spend our time collecting toys Instinct becomes skewed, atrophied from lack of use The deadening of instinct creates creatures emotionally weak We are spinning out of control We've got our life support in a chokehold Soon the time will come That we face up to what we've done Disconnected from our normal state We let the tension turn to hate Beaten down by all the stress We can't afford true happiness Smart enough to see the truth But out of touch with primal roots Taught to see a certain way And to ignore what we can't see Now the time has come That we face up to what we've done The final war that won't be won Will be waged without a gun Without a gun Armageddon It won't be god It will be us Now we see a world society Dominated by poisoned thinking The signs are all around us that most people don't want this But it's accepted that's the way things are And no one is normal in this environment And no one is healthy with this mental bombardment And so we're destroying ourselves When the judgement comes It won't be god, it will be us Reflected in a pool of oily blood A murky, shadowy, fractured image Of what we know We could be